[Building Sakai] internal Sakai account management

Steve Swinsburg steve.swinsburg at gmail.com
Thu Mar 11 05:00:13 PST 2010


Do you mean adding in generation of passwords in the Users tool? You could
still use this method to check it's strength after one was generated. And
you'd want to check a user's password strength when they change it.

cheers,
Steve

On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 11:17 PM, Adam Marshall <adam.marshall at oucs.ox.ac.uk
> wrote:

> I was thinking of auto generating a stronger initial password not checking
> a user supplied one.
>
> adam
>
> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Steve Swinsburg [mailto:steve.swinsburg at gmail.com]
> | Sent: 11 March 2010 11:28
> | To: Adam Marshall
> | Cc: sakai-dev at collab.sakaiproject.org
> | Subject: Re: [Building Sakai] internal Sakai account management
> |
> | Hi Adam,
> |
> | Password strength is partially done via
> | http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/KNL-285 which adds support for
> | checking a user's password based on a number of criteria and return a
> | score. There wasn't any work done on the actual User tool though, which
> | would leverage this http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-17058.
> |
> | Expiry would be a good one too.
> |
> | cheers,
> | Steve
> |
> |
> |
> |
> | On 11/03/2010, at 9:25 PM, Adam Marshall wrote:
> |
> | > has anybody done any work with the non-provided accounts, i.e., the
> | accounts that are created via the Users tool. Specifically
> | >
> | > 1/ generating a better password, the security of the current password
> | is extremely poor
> | > 2/ account expiry - setting a default (of say 3 years) with a
> | reactivation / deactivation features
> | >
> | > Adam
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